Sept. 27: Earth & Beyond Review at Netjak

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By IGN Staff

Reviews of Earth & Beyond are starting to roll in, the latest arriving from Netjak. It comes to this unhappy conclusion:

Westwood had the idea right, but overall, failed to make it work. Earth and Beyond made itself out to be the next big thing in MMORPGs, but simply turned out to be little more than the usual offerings, just with ships and lasers instead of dwarves an axes. As with most MMORPGs, I watch them closely and look forward to just about every one that comes out in hopes it will shatter the perceived mold created by EverQuest, but in the end, they all fail and offer little more than a different environment to do the same thing.

Earth and Beyond still lacks the variety needed to make it a decent online game. Lag and awful audio also add into the mix. The nice space visuals and the change from the fantasy atmosphere couldn't make up for the glaring negatives. As it stands, there still hasn't been a decent online only game to be developed, but I still cross my fingers and hope a developer out there will try it sometime.

The online space sim/RPG is given a score of 4.7 out of 10. Earth & Beyond was developed by Westwood Studios. - Pipeline